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Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.

. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.

An animal having only two digits.

Having only two digits; two-toed.

A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.

s name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium.

An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency.

ed from different countries. -- Differential galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer having two coils or circuits, usually equal, through which currents passing in opposite directions are measured by the difference of their effect upon the needle. -- Differential gearing, a train of toothed wheels, usually an epicyclic…

acteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize. The word then was differentiated into the two forms then and than. Earle. Two or more of the forms assumed by the same original word become differentiated in signification. Dr. Murray.

Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.

The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.

to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

isions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.

A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

Having two angles. Smart.

Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

A Linnæan order of plants having two styles.

Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.